"I was fighting for my name, cleared my name in 2013, and I was fighting for my name now, just to clear my name."

We talked to Semenza a day after a federal civil jury cleared him and Old Forge borough of any liability for the alleged abuse.

Five years later, Semenza contends it never happened.

"It's not hard when you're really telling the truth. You know inside you didn't do it so you continue to fight. Everybody's going to have their opinions, I have opinions about different things, everybody will have their opinions. I can't do anything to change that, I know what I did. I know I didn't do anything. I go home and sleep at night, fine, I have no problem with that, people are entitled to their opinions."

Semenza signed an agreement with the Lackawanna County district attorney's office that he would never work in law enforcement again. He plans to maintain that agreement.

And to the girl, now a 27-year-old woman, who accused him, he says he wishes her no ill will.

"I have no hard feelings with anyone. I just want to go on with my life. It is what it is, can't change it so I'm not going to dwell on it."

The civil jury this week did find the former Old Forge firefighter, Walter Chiavacci liable and awarded the victim $20,000, but attorneys for the borough say it's unlikely she will ever see that money because Chiavacci did not have insurance.